Funchingo

I thought the teasers for the new TV show Outsourced were cute. I thought I would give the show a try. The TV show is okay, but while reading up on the TV show, I read that it was based on a movie. Well I found the movie, and just watched it today. It was sweet and endearing. I am surprised that it never came out in a wider release. Roger Ebert said it was not a "great movie...but charming." Yet he seemed to enjoy everything about the movie the same way I did. If was a bit predictable at times, but the ending wasn't. I say it was a great movie, and very charming.

I just hope the television show goes more the direction the movie takes, and less like a normal sitcom would.

The acting was okay. The story was interesting until it went absolutely nowhere. It was a road that should have stayed less traveled. The movie is suppose to be based on true events. But what the hell where those events. The story telling is so fragmented and ambiguous, and perhaps would have been better told in say 22 minutes ala Twilight Zone, but the plot is so stretched that the filler dilutes whatever message the movie makers wanted to make. I waited until the last minute to see if this movie would "save" itself, yet alas no. I only sacrificed 90 minutes of time to trite. Oh, and the music, the score, or whatever it was, was just awful. In fact, the music used during the opening credits should have tipped me off to the crap that lied ahead.